Hair waver



Aug. 26, 1930.

M. T. M GRATH HAIR WAVER Filed April 4. 1929 Patented Aug. 26, 1930 PATENT OFFHIE MINNIE T. MCGRATH, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS HAIR waver;

Application filed April 4,

The principal objects of this invention are to provide a device which can be used without heat and will make a wave practically like the professional marcel wave; to provide a construction by which the wave will be produced with a series of parallel definite ridges across the hair, and the hair between these ridges will have concave curves, arranged alternately in opposite directions; to

provide an arrangement that is open so that the hair dries almost instantly and which is sanitary because of this openness, allowing ventilation at all times and having no feature adapted to absorboil from the hair; to provide a construction by which an outgrown permanent wave can be restored near the roots of the hair without interfering with the part of it which still remains; to provide a construction by which a plurality of these devices can be arranged end to end so as to make it possible to wave hair of any length, and to provide a convenient, compact, light and easily manipulated construction having no detachable parts.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will appear hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a face view of a device for waving the hair constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the hair in position and the wave formed on the waver, and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing one loop of the hair after being waved on this device and spread out.

The device comprises a central, preferably flexible wire 10 having a curved. end 11, Figure 1, being about full size and provided with a series of loops 12 on one side and 13 on the other, being carried back and forth in parallel lines. These loops alternate with each other and terminate in another curved end 11. The straight parts of the loops constit-ute cross bars and the loops prevent the passing of the hair around them in the wrong way.

The waver is completed by another wire 14 of a similar nature, extending straight along Serial No. 352,560.

the middle of the waver, and having two curved ends 15 similar to the ends 11 but bending in the opposite direction. These ends 11 and 15 are curved or bent so that they overlap each other at their extremities which are provided with thicker portions 16 which are shown in the form of spheres or balls. The two wires 10 and 1 1 are soldered or otherwise secured together at several points 17. It will be noticed that at the last point 0 at which these two wires cross before they are bent to provide the ends 11 and 15, they are not soldered or attached.

In the use of this device the end 11 at either extremity of the device is forced in ward toward the first soldered joint 17 to separate the two balls 16 at that end shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) and a lock of hair, previously moistened, is then inserted in the opening thusmade. The lock is held in the space between the ends 11 and 15 by the resiliency of the wire. Then the device is pushed down to the scalp and the strand of hair extends through the space between the ends 11 and 15. The free end of this wire is released and crossed over the end 15 and the parts come back to the position shown in Fig. 2 in which the article is locked or held on the hair. Now the lock of hair is carried back of the first loop 12 and then over the so wire 14 and backwardly over the left hand side of the loop 13 and then under that loop.

It is then passed back over the wire 1% and under the second loop 12 on the other side, and so on, until the end of the lock of hair is reached. The hair at its end is coiled into a ringlet around an intersection of the vertical wire and a cross wire and then held by a hair pin or clip 19 as indicated in Fig. 2.

The clip 19 is then removed and the lock 9 of hair taken out of the waver and it can be improved slightly by placing a comb in it and moving it up toward each of the ridges, but no other combing is required. A wave is provided by this construction and operation which very nearly resembles a permanent marcel wave without the use of heat or anything but this light wire frame. If it is left on all night it does not produce any undue strain because of its light weight and enough of them to cover the scalp do not weigh enough to be noticed.

On account of the openness of the device the air circulates very readily and the hair dries quickly so that the waves are formed without any great expenditure of time but it left on for a longer period, as tor instance, all night, the wave will be made more tight and lasting.

The making of the device of a small size of flexible wire has several other advantages. On that account, the wire 1 lcan be bent to the shape of the head so the entire device will lie close to the head. Two or more of them can be placed end to end, overlapping enough so that the last loop on one will coincide with the lirst loop on the other, and thus a long lock hai can be 'aved to the end without any interrupthm in the waves.

A slight but sharp curvi back on the same wire '12 gives a little t to the hair such as the expert marcel warer accomplishes with an ever-so slight twist of her heated cl'lrling iron. This crease is formed by a double twist, lirst one way then reverse on the same straight thin wire. The hair is thus formed into a ridge because of its )assing entirely around the cross wire. This wire, because of its small s 'l'orms a good substitute for the sharp edge of the protessionals heated curling iron. The same straight cross wire actually forms the upper boundary ol one loop and the lower boundary oi the alternate loop.

By turnin" oi the hair over the straight parts of the loops 12, back and forth, sharp, but shallow, creases are formed in the upper-sides of the 'aves, thus providing distinct, neat loops in the hair. Yet by soldering the two wires together in the places indicated, the structure is made rigid enough to avoid any displacemenl oi the loop.

The wave produced is characte'izcd by unit'orm depressions 20 in two parallel rows, separated from each other, and having between them sharp, shallow, creases 21. These creases extend across the lock of hair and the rounded depressions extend alternately in :lorward and back curves. The two adjacent creases are formed on the straight part of the same wire and the convex ridges 22 are produced only by the thinness or". the cross wire. Thus their size is deteri'nined by the size of the wire and they are so shallow that the waves lie close to the head.

Although I have illustrated and described only one term of the invention, I am aware of the fact that modifications can be made therein by any person skilled in the art, without departing from the scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. There fore, I do not wish to be limited to the exact form of construction shown herein, but what I claim is 1. As an article of manufacture, a hair waver comprising a central straight wire and thin wire cross bars secured to it at equal intervals and at right angles constituting means around which the hair can be turned to form sharp, but shallow, creases in the hair of uniform size across the whole lock of hair.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hair w ver comprising a central straight wire and a wire formed into alternating loops secured at the center to the straight wire, the ends of both wires being free from each other and curved toward each other to form resilient means for holding the article on the hair close to the scalp and for receiving at either end the lock of hair the waver being symmetrical throughout and alike at both ends to render it reversible.

b. As an article of manufacture, a hair waver comprising a central wire and thin cross wires secured thereto, each cross wire constituting, on one side of the central wire, means around, which one end of a loop of hair is turned and, on the other side in a straight line therewith, and at right angles to the central wire means around which the adjacent end of the next loop is turned in the opposite direction.

4-. As an article of i'nanuiacture, a hair waver consisting of a longitudinal wire and: open loops extending from opposite sides thereof alternately, and formed of thin wire crossing the longitudinal wire substantially at right angles, both wires having free arcuate ends tern'iinating in smooth roundcal terminals and crossing each other to term loops constituting the sole means of holding the ends of a lock of hair.

In testimony whereot l have hereunto a1- tixed my signature.

MINNIE T. McG-RATH.

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